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The Battle for Fox

fern | October 27, 2025



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Who will win the battle for succession in the Murdoch family and take control of the world’s most powerful media empire?

Our research is based on the following sources, among others:
“You’ve Blown a Hole in the Family,” by Jonathan Mahler and Jim Rutenberg for the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/magazine/rupert-murdoch-succession-family-trust-fight.html

“Growing Up Murdoch,” by McKay Coppins for The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/04/rupert-murdoch-family-succession-james-murdoch/681675/
“Anna and Her Kingdom,” by David Leser for Australian Women’s Weekly: https://davidleser.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Anna-Murdoch.pdf

“The Boy Who Wouldn’t Be King,” by Steve Fishman for New York magazine: https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/media/features/14302/

“How Rupert Murdoch’s Empire of Influence Remade the World,” by Jonathan Mahler and Jim Rutenberg for the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/03/magazine/rupert-murdoch-fox-news-trump.html

The Murdochs: Empire of Influence (CNN/New York Times documentary series): https://edition.cnn.com/shows/the-murdochs-empire-of-influence

“Inside the Deal Ending the Murdoch Succession Fight,” by Jim Rutenberg and Jonathan Mahler for the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/business/media/murdoch-family-trust-succession-deal.html

Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JloMejlg5GMQCSj8F06Pe7k_BkaapLewa5G2WCQpF-M/edit?usp=sharing

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Credits:

Executive Producers:
Jonas
David
Paul

Script:
Don
Jonas
Jonas R.

Fact-Check:
Kai Bodensiek
Lisa Victoria Peter

Art Direction:
Thomas Overbeeke

Voice Over:
Elmer

Edit:
Alejandro Camacho Diaz

3D Animation:
Killian van Basten
Lucas Göhr

2D Animation:
Tim Verhaert
Eddy Klaus
Leo Jung
Jakob Schöne (ad)

Sound Mix:
Leo Wang

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Music list:

Tom Fox: Formal Lines, The Sides of War, Countries Aren’t Real, Signal Drop B, Naval Presence, Taskforce, Alien Machine, Brutal War

Lens Distortion:
Take the Crown – Persona Non Grata, Testing the Limits, No Ordinary Pursuit, Waiting For A While B, No One Wins, Stay Down, Power Play, Vanguard, The Long Game, Panic, Virtuoso, Unshaken
Force Multiplayer – Full Contact
For all time – Beyond the Fold, Magnum Opus
In the Silence – In the Silence

Artlist:
Ardie Son – Circus
Piotr Hummel – Dark Silence
Artlist Musical Logos – Sad Music Ident
Nono – Tears – The 5th Season
Will Van De Crommert – A Ray of Elegance
Ian Post – Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy Tchaikovsky – Alternative version
John Dada the Weathermen – Chamber Stress
Gal Lev – Empty Rooms
Young Rich Pixies – Monster from the Deep
Gal Lev – TOMORROW
Gruber – The Uprising
Roberto Prado – Court Scheme
Lars Bork Andersen – Dramatic Motion

Epidemic Sound:
Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen – Rivers Run Red
String Quartet No 5 In F Major K 158 Allegro
Ritchie Everett – Bachelor on the Move
The New Fools – It’ll Be a Slow Burn
August Wilhelmsson – Drummer’s Game 1
Peachwood – Domino
Dream Cave – Nerve, Death and Glory
Robert Ruth – Frame by Frame
Dian Shuai – The Only Way Out
Jon Bjork – Slipping Through My Fingers
Craft Case – Vessels
Bonnie Grace – One Hour Countdown

Audiio:
Tom Goldstein – Vortex
Andrew and Jared Depolo – Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy

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Written by fern

Comments

This post currently has 45 comments.

  13. @Il-SKl

    October 27, 2025 at 12:05 am

    40:27 😂 so if it’s arson, you refuse to believe it because of some need to justify your climate change nonsense? This is wonderful news for the utility companies of California who have caused nearly all the recent massive wildfires. They don’t have to worry about corporate responsibility when the bogeyman of climate change gets to take blame.

  26. @lilhaxxor

    October 27, 2025 at 12:05 am

    You did a very poor job at explaining the genealogy. Also, the conclusion is a bit messy, unclear with a lot of moving parts. A summary is necessary given the length. The video is bad. Disliked.

  28. @kirkspinelli3815

    October 27, 2025 at 12:05 am

    this is actually so ridiculous 4:58 Motive claims without discriminating evidence… are you serious… outcomes do not prove intent… the claim is pure conjecture. What a shame. How the mighty have fallen

  34. @Silverhand290

    October 27, 2025 at 12:05 am

    What a bunch. I couldn't imagine treating my family this way. It takes all sorts I suppose. I came across a great quote the other day. "Some people are so poor, all they have is money" Bob Marley.

  35. @notHere8801

    October 27, 2025 at 12:05 am

    I never knew about the Murdochs until watching this documentary. less than 10 minutes in i immediately starting drawing parallels to Succession and the Roys. lol

  39. @day245

    October 27, 2025 at 12:05 am

    Knowing much of the story, but learning more from this video (which was good), I realize how easily it must’ve been to write Succession. Might as well have been a documentary

  44. @csanadhorvath

    October 27, 2025 at 12:05 am

    imagine being stressed and destroying your personal relations with your family members, when you could have just shut up, lived in peace, got your 2 BILLION dollar part from the family trust, and lived like a king/queen. Instead they choose to undermine each other and squabble for televison's filthiest and most brain destroying media empire. Rich people are truly something else man, they don't understand the value of money, or where happiness comes from. I almost feel sorry for them in a way.

  45. @elixorvideos

    October 27, 2025 at 12:05 am

    I do truly think that Rupert is still in that dorm room feeling completely powerless and robbed. He's completely destroyed the world and his family. I really do hope Fox News falls apart when Rupert goes to Hell.

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